Grain Pole Hill

Grain Pole Hill is a location on Anglezarke Moor, near Chorley, within the West Pennine Moors of Lancashire, England. With a height of 285 metres, the summit provides views towards the Irish Sea.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Anglezarke Reservoir and High Bullough Reservoir.

Anglezarke Reservoir

Reservoir

Photo: Sue Adair, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Anglezarke Reservoir is the largest reservoir in the Rivington chain to the west of Anglezarke in Lancashire, England. Anglezarke Reservoir has three embankments: the Charnock Embankment, the longest, is 850 yards long and 31 feet high, the Knowsley Embankment is 240 yards long and 45 feet high and the Heapey Embankment is 280 feet long and 32 feet high.

High Bullough Reservoir

Reservoir

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High Bullough Reservoir is the oldest of all the reservoirs in the Rivington chain, having been authorised by the Chorley Waterworks Act 1846 and completed in 1850.

Yarrow Reservoir

Reservoir

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Yarrow Reservoir – named after the River Yarrow – is a reservoir in the Rivington chain in Anglezarke, Lancashire, England, and has a storage capacity second to Anglezarke Reservoir.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Chorley and Adlington.

Chorley

Photo: jim walton, CC BY 3.0.

Chorley is a town in Lancashire, England, in the West Pennine Moors. Chorley describes itself as "Lancashire's Market Town". The markets take place most days, and continue to attract shoppers from around the local area.

Adlington

Village

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Adlington is a village and civil parish in the Borough of Chorley in Lancashire, England, near the West Pennine Moors. It is 3 miles south of Chorley. It became a separate parish in 1842 then grew into a township around the textile and coal mining industries until these closed in the 1960s.

Heath Charnock

Village

Photo: Margaret Clough, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Heath Charnock is a small village and civil parish of the Borough of Chorley in Lancashire, England. According to the United Kingdom Census 2001 it has a population of 2,065, reducing to 2,026 at the 2011 Census.

Grain Pole Hill

Type: Peak
Description: mountain in United Kingdom
Categories: mountain and landform
Location: Anglezarke, Chorley District, Lancashire, North West England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

53.6574° or 53° 39′ 27″ north

Longitude

-2.5666° or 2° 33′ 60″ west

Open location code

9C5VMC4M+X9

OpenStreetMap ID

node 6196327495

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=peak

Wikidata ID

Q5593499

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In Other Languages

From Dutch to Ladin—“Grain Pole Hill” goes by many names.

Dutch: “Grain Pole Hill”
Ladin: “Grain Pole Hill”

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